Baltimore Orioles Baseball
Q&A with Jason Parks, Baseball Prospectus
Jason Parks is a Writer for Baseball Prospectus, and the co-host of the BP Podcast. You can find Park's work with Baseball Prospectus at: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/author/jason_parks/ You can find the BP Podcast at:...
A Reversal of Thinking
You can argue that Mike Adams had more value than Koji Uehara, but I think once you account for the differences of the NL West vs. the AL East, and PETCO vs. OPACY; the differences are minimal. In the span of two days, the Texas Rangers traded for these two relievers....
O’s trade Uehara to Texas for Chris Davis, and Tommy Hunter
According to Jeff Zrebiec of The Baltimore Sun, the Baltimore Orioles have traded Koji Uehara to the Texas Rangers for Chris Davis, and Tommy Hunter. Davis is a 25 year-old lefty hitting 1st baseman, who has had 42 homers in the Major Leagues. Hunter is a 25 year-old...
Orioles Q&A with National Analysts 2
Earlier this Month, Orioles Hangout spoke with several National Analysts about the Baltimore Orioles (http://orioleshangout.com/blog/chris-corner/299/orioles-qa-with-national-analysts). With the Non-Waiver Deadline a couple of days away, Orioles Hangout has again...
Hindsight on Showalter’s Coaching Changes
After Showalter was hired last August, the O’s went 34-23. After the 2010 All-Star break, the O’s were 37-37. Despite that finish, there were wholesale changes to Coaching staff. Like many others, I was ambivalent at the time of this turnover. My logic at the time was...
What Starting Pitching Will the O’s Target?
Yesterday we wrote about some positional players which we could see the Orioles targeting this off-season: http://www.orioleshangout.com/blog/chris-corner/311/ramirez-pena-cuddyer-morneau-beltran--sizemore Included in that piece, we worked with the premise that the...
Realignment & the 2nd Wild Card
Danny Knobler of CBS Sports reported this week (http://danny-knobler.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/8590096/30595756) that realignment in Major League Baseball will happen by 2013, and as early as 2013. Knobler also said that the 2nd Wild Card could well happen...
July Q&A with Dan Szymborski, BBTF & ESPN
On a Monthly basis Orioles Hangout will be checking in with Dan Szymborski, the Editor-in-Chief of Baseball Think Factory (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/) and a contributing writer for ESPN (http://search.espn.go.com/Dan-Szymborski/ ). You can also find...